Makes me want to cry that the ability to unilaterally and secretly censor our internet is being handed to people who do not even know the difference between a URL and an ip address.
One might argue that the more technologically incompetent the censors are, the better.
No. They'll just break the whole internet by banning Google ip one day.
Exactly. How many people do you think would notice if they banned some Google ip's. If they banned some Google domains, people would notice, but a banned IP would just mean one fewer Google servers in that region.
You're wrong assessing consequences. This happened in Russia and big chunk of Blogger and GMail attachment downloads went completely down.